You’re going on a cross-country trip. Airplane, train, bus, car, or bike?
It has to be train. I love to take in the views and vibes of train journeys, especially the old-fashioned steam engines. I’ve been lucky enough to go on a short trip at a railway museum, and there’s nothing like the ‘chugga chugga’ sound of gears and cogs doing their thing. The old train stations are a wonder to behold as well. Preston train station is just like Kings Cross with the high billowing roof and framework. Yep. Trains every time.
I write novels and short stories and draw and write cartoons. The main cartoon I'm working on at the moment is Still Life. It's about a man who sits at home on his sofa all day and yet bizarre things still happen to him. At the moment him and his sofa are stuck on a desert island. Check out Still Life Series Five: Beyond the Sofa on this site.
My debut novel is out now. It's called 'A Fifth Visitor', and it's a very unofficial sequel to 'A Christmas Carol'. The story picks up five years after the events of Dickens' classic, and we see how Scrooge is getting on with his promise to always keep Christmas. A new spirit pays him a visit and convinces Scrooge that he's not doing enough to redeem himself, so they both travel to the future to save a young nurse called Grace, but there's something big that this new spirit is keeping to himself. I'm developing a website dedicated to my writing, so watch this space. One of my short stories is available on amazon kindle. If you want to check it out, it's called 'Richmond's Rarity'. It's about a late night hospital radio DJ. I've written it under my author name of John D Payne.
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JOHN D. PAYNE IS WRITING 